Shekhar Kapur’s biggest movie tells an
‘invisible man’ story. One of Indian film’s most
exotic villains yet, the blond dictator Mogambo
(Puri, resembling Marty Feldman in Nazi
uniform) is defeated by a common-man hero
(Kapoor) who can render himself invisible. The
film moves through a series of sketches: breakdancing
kids, heroine Sridevi playing a
journalist while performing her famous Hawa
Hawaii routine (quoted in Salaam Bombay,
1988) and her popular Chaplin imitation.